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fredag 22. juni 2018

Nikki Haley Tells Bernie Sanders It Is “Ridiculous” to Examine Poverty in the US

Nikki Haley declared on Thursday that it is “patently ridiculous”
for the U.N. to even examine poverty in America because it is “the
wealthiest and freest country in the world.”

Responding to Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) call for the Trump administration take immediate action to address extreme poverty in the U.S. after a United Nations report
found that tens of millions of Americans are suffering “massive levels
of deprivation,” U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley declared in a letter to
Sanders on Thursday that it is “patently ridiculous” for the U.N. to
even examine poverty in America because it is “the wealthiest and freest
country in the world.”

Sanders was quick to issue a forceful response to Haley on Thursday,
arguing that the U.N. should examine widespread poverty in the U.S. precisely because it is the wealthiest nation on the planet.“You are certainly right in suggesting that poverty in many countries
including the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi is far worse
than it is in the United States,” Sanders wrote in
a letter to Haley on Thursday. “But what is important to note about
poverty in America is that it takes place in the richest county in the
history of the world and at a time when wealth and income inequality is
worse than at any time since the 1920s.”The Vermont senator continued:

As I’m sure you know, in America today despite low
unemployment, some 40 million people still live in poverty, more than 30
million have no health insurance, over half of older workers have no
retirement savings, 140 million Americans are struggling to pay for
basic living expenses, 40 percent of Americans cannot afford a $400
emergency and millions of Americans are leaving school deeply in debt. I
hope you will agree that in a nation in which the top three people own
more wealth than the bottom half, we can and must do much better than
that.”

The scathing U.N. report that Haley denounced in her letter to
Sanders as “misleading and politically motivated” found that more than
18 million Americans are living in “extreme poverty,” and that the Trump
administration’s attacks on the remnants of America’s social safety net
are going to make this crisis worse.

In his response letter to Haley on Thursday, Sanders concluded: “As
it happens, I personally believe that it is totally appropriate for the
U.N. Special Rapporteur to focus on poverty in the United States.”